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Adele Viguera

Adele Viguera, MD

Consultation Liaison PsychiatryWomen's Behavioral HealthPsychiatry

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Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Adult

Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

About Adele Viguera

Biography

Adele C. Viguera, MD, is Associate Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Program at Cleveland Clinic.

She received her BA from Harvard University.

Locations

  1. Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
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Education & Board Certifications

Education

  • Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, 1999
  • Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, 1996
  • Residency: McLean Hospital, 1995
  • Internship: Massachusetts General Hospital, 1992
  • Medical Education: Dartmouth Medical School, 1991
  • Undergraduate: Harvard University, 1986

Board Certifications

  • Psychiatry: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 1996

Professional Highlights

  • NIMH K23 Career Development Award (K23 MH-11609), focused on The Course of Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period, 1999-2004
  • R01 from National Institute of Mental Health for a multisite collaborative study with Emory School of Medicine on Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy: Predictors of Morbidity (Collaborative Grant: R01 MH 071762 [Viguera]; R01 MH 071531[Newport]), 2005-2010  
  • New Investigators Program, National Institute of Mental Health, New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU), 1998 Awardee
  • Scientific peer reviewer for NIH SCOR Centers on Women’s Health, Bethesda, Md., March 8-9, 2007
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Women’s Health Research Day, 2006 Awardee

Additional Training

  • Master's Degree in Public Health, quantitative methods, Harvard School of Public Health

Awards

  • Dr. Viguera has had a very successful track record securing support to study important research questions in reproductive psychiatry. Early in her academic career, she was the recipient of an NIMH K23 Career Development Award (K23 MH-11609), focused on the Course of Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period. 
  • She has received additional awards from private foundations including  two consecutive National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Research Awards for the study of Neonatal Outcome Following Exposure to Lithium. 
  • In 2004, she received a two-year Harvard Medical School Scholars in Medicine Fellowship Claflin Award for a project entitled, Screening for Antenatal Bipolar Disorder Associated with Maternal Morbidity and Adverse Neonatal Outcome. The body of research laid the groundwork for an R01.
  • In 2005, she was awarded an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a multisite collaborative study with Emory School of Medicine on Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy: Predictors of Morbidity (Collaborative Grant: R01 MH 071762 [Viguera]; R01 MH 071531[Newport]).

Professional Memberships

American Psychiatric Association; American Teratology Society; North American Menopause Society

Research & Publications

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Industry Relationships

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As of 2025-12-10, Dr. Viguera has reported the financial relationships with the companies listed below.

Consulting and/or Speaking. Dr. Viguera receives fees of $5,000 or more per year (or, in rare cases, equity or stock options) as a paid consultant, speaker or as a member of an advisory committee for the following companies:

  • UpToDate (a Wolters Kluwer Brand)

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